About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

July 3......

July 3 is the 184th (185th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 181 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Open-Mindedness "I call that mind free, which sets no bounds to its love, which is not imprisoned in itself or in a sect, which recognizes in all human beings the image of God." — William Ellery Channing

Stupidest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Undermining Public Education "The public school system is damned. Let me tell you how radical I am. Christian students should be in Christian schools. If you have to sell your car, live in a smaller house, or work a night job, put your child in Christian schools. If you can't afford it, home school." — Jerry Falwell

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: On Politics "It has not worked. No one can say it has worked, so I decided we're either going to do what we said we're going to do with the UN, or we're going to something else." — Bill Clinton, on the UN operation in Bosnia

Thought for the day: "The best government teaches us to govern ourselves."

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1866 - Austro-Prussian War is decided at the Battle of Königgratz, resulting in Prussia taking over as the prominent German nation from Austria.

● 1871 - The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company introduced the first narrow-gauge locomotive. It was called the "Montezuma."

● 1878 - Broadway song-and-dance man George M. Cohan was born in Providence, R.I. (Cohan claimed to have been - as he wrote in one of his patriotic songs, "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - "born on the Fourth of July.")

● 1883 - Birth of Franz Kafka, Czech Jewish novelist who portrayed alienation, state bureaucracy, and the banality of evil.

● 1884 - Dow Jones published its 1st stock average.

● 1886 - The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, vastly reducing typesetting by hand. {Headlines and specialty type faces are still done by hand.}

● 1890 - Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.

● 1894 - Birth of Don R. Falkenberg, founder in 1923 of the Mid-West Businessmen's Council of the Pocket Testament League. In 1967 the name of this evangelical agency was changed to Bible Literature International.

● 1898 - During the Spanish American War, a fleet of Spanish ships in Cuba's Santiago Harbor attempted to run a blockade of U.S. naval forces. Nearly all of the Spanish ships were destroyed in the battle that followed.

● 1898 - Spanish fleet, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, destroyed by the U.S. Navy in Santiago, Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

● 1901 - The Wild Bunch, led by Butch Cassidy, committed its last American robbery near Wagner, MT. They took $65,000 from a Great Northern train.

● 1903 - The first cable across the Pacific Ocean was spliced between Honolulu, Midway, Guam and Manila.

● 1907 - Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical 'Lamentabili,' formally condemned the 'modernist' intellectual movement, as it exhibited itself in the Catholic Church.

● 1913 - Common tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have crossed the Atlantic on its own.)

● 1915 - US military forces occupy Haiti, remain until 1934

● 1916 - 1st of 3 fatal shark attacks occurred near NJ shore (4 die)

● 1917 - In the "July Days," workers and soldiers in Petrograd, Russia demand the Soviet take power. Sporadic fighting results, and the Soviet restores order with troops brought back from the front. Trotsky is arrested. Lenin goes into hiding. A new provisional government is set up with Kerensky at its head.

● 1944 - The U.S. First Army opened a general offensive to break out of the hedgerow area of Normandy, France.

● 1944 - World War II: Minsk was liberated from Nazi control by Soviet troops during Operation Bagration.

● 1945 - The first civilian passenger car built since February 1942 was driven off the assembly line at the Ford Motor Company plant in Detroit, MI. Production had been diverted due to World War II.

● 1945 - U.S. troops landed at Balikpapan and take Sepinggan airfield on Borneo in the Pacific.

● 1950 - 1st time US & North Korean forces clash in the Korean War

● 1950 - U.S. carrier-based planes attacked airfields in the Pyongyang-Chinnampo area of North Korea in the first air-strike of the Korean War.

● 1951 - Ridgway agrees to ceasefire talks; Talks to end the Korean war will begin later in July after terms were accepted by General Matthew Ridgway, supreme commander to the UN in the Far-East.

● 1952 - Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States.

● 1954 - Food rationing ended in Great Britain almost nine years after the end of World War II.

● 1956 - Commonwealth heads honoured; The prime ministers of India and New Zealand are made Freemen of the City of London.

● 1959 - Pope John XXIII, in his encyclical 'Ad Petri Cathedram,' expressed the hope that non-Catholic Christians would see in the upcoming Vatican II Ecumenical Council 'a warm invitation to seek and find unity.'

● 1970 - Simultaneous bomb attacks in Paris and London against Spanish State Tourist offices, and the Spanish and Greek Embassies.

● 1971 - Singer, songwriter and poet for the Doors, Jim Morrison, 27, dies of a drug-induced heart attack. Found in his bathtub in Paris. News of his death wasn't made public until days after his burial.

● 1976 - Israeli commandos rescue 105 hostages at Entebbe Airport, Uganda during Operation Yonatan. {Cannibal and Dictator Idi Amin had "welcomed" the hostages as his guests. An ill hostage supposedly taken to hospital was never seen or heard from again.}

● 1977 - The Senegalese Republican Movement (MRS) is founded.

● 1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy Words"

● 1979 - Thirty-four years after the end of World War II, the West German government voted to continue prosecution of Nazi war criminals by removing the statute of limitations on murder.

● 1979 - US President Jimmy Carter signs the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul.

● 1981 - 195 demonstrators arrested in series of White House sit-downs against Reagan administration cuts and involvement with El Salvador.

● 1981 - Beginning of 12 days of Neo-Nazi Front riots in London and a dozen other English cities.

● 1981 - The Associated Press ran its first story about two rare illnesses afflicting homosexual men. One of the diseases was later named AIDS.

● 1981 - The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta issues a report documenting 26 cases -- eight of them fatal -- of a rare skin cancer called Kaposi's sarcoma. All the patients are male. It is the first official federal recognition of what would soon be identified as the AIDS epidemic.

● 1982 - One day after his conviction for the shooting of a policeman, black journalist and activist Mumia Abu-Jamal is sentenced to death, on the basis of his teenage membership in the Black Panther Party, by a Philadelphia jury anxious to go home for the holiday weekend.

● 1984 - Dolphin rocket launched off San Clemente Island

● 1984 - Supreme Court rules Jaycees may be forced to admit women as members

● 1986 - Mikhail Baryshnikov became a U.S. citizen at Ellis Island, New York Harbor.

● 1986 - U.S. President Reagan presided over a ceremony in New York Harbor that saw the relighting of the renovated Statue of Liberty.

● 1987 - Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie gets life; The former chief of Gestapo in Lyon, Klaus Barbie, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a Lyon court.

● 1987 - 2 men became 1st hot-air balloon travelers to cross Atlantic

● 1988 - U.S. warship U.S.S. Vincennes "accidentally" shoots down commercial Iranian airliner over Persian Gulf, killing all 290 aboard. Navy personnel claim they mistook the airliner for an Iranian F-14 jet fighter. The Pentagon refused to discipline any personnel. Claimed the jet was outside its commercial air corridor and descending toward the Vincennes--but it is reported on 5 July that it was well within its commercial air corridor, and was ascending. {We were still buddies with the Iranians deadly enemy, Saddam, who had not taken profit away from US oil companies yet.}

● 1989 - Fitzgerald Inquiry released in Queensland.

● 1989 - Supreme Court rules states do not have to provide funds for abortions

● 1991 - U.S. President George H. W. Bush formally inaugurated the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota.

● 1994 - The deadliest day in Texas traffic history, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Forty six people were killed in crashes. {Almost as bad as the war criminal's record as chief death warrant signer in Texas.}

● 1997 - Poland abolishes death penalty.

● 1997 - U.S. President Clinton made his first formal response to the charges of sexual harassment from Paula Jones. He denied all the charges and asked that the judge dismiss the case.

● 1999 - Paul Wulf (1921-1999) dies. German antifascist much influenced by the work of the anarchist author Erich Mühsam. Placed in an orphanage at age seven, Wulf was a victim of Nazi eugenics, forcibly sterilized in 1938. Following WWII he was an active Nazi-hunter, flushing out and revealing those seeking to hide and integrate themselves in the community. Due to his obstinacy, in 1981 Wulf received compensation for his sterilization.

● 2000 - Livingstone to take on government; In his first speech as Mayor of London Ken Livingstone announces that he will stand up to the government.

● 2001 - Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic refused to enter a plea on war crimes charges in his first appearance before a U.N. tribunal at The Hague.

● Roman Catholic:● Sts. Aaron and Julius● St. Anatolius● St. Appolin● St. Bertran, bishop of Le Mans● St. Bladus● St. Byblig● St. Cillene● St. Dathus● St. Eulogius and Companions● St. Gunthiern, abbot● St. Guthagon, recluse● St. Hyacinth● St. Joseph Peter Uyen● St. Leo II, 80th Pope (681-83) (died 683)● St. Maelmuire O' Gorman● St. Marinus, bishop, martyr● St. Mark● St. Mucian● St. Philip Minh● St. Phocas, martyr● St. Raymond, confessor at Toulouse● St. Sidronius, martyr● St. Thomas, apostle● St. Thomas of Kerala, Syria● St. Tryphon & Companions● Bl. Raymond Lull

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for June 21 (Civil Date: July 3)● Martyr Julian of Tarsus in Cilicia.● Hieromartyr Terence (Tertius), Bishop of Iconium.● St. Julius, presbyter of Novara, and his brother St. Julian the deacon.● New-Martyr Nicetas of Nisyros near Rhodes.● Martyrs Archil II and Luarsab II, kings of Georgia.● Martyr Aphrodisius in Cilicia.

● Greek Calendar:● Martyr Julian of Libya.● Hieromartyr Anthony, Anastasius who was raised from the dead, Celsius and his mother Vasilissa, 20 prison guards and 7 brothers, martyred with St. Julian.

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